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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;
- Example: "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"
- Example: "a deep metaphysical theory"
- Example: "some recondite problem in historiography"
[syn: abstruse, deep, recondite]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r[e^]k"[o^]n*d[imac]t or
   r[-e]k[o^]n"d[i^]t; 277), a. [L. reconditus, p. p. of
   recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re-
   re- + condere to bring or lay together. See Abscond.]
   1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
      abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
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   2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as,
      recondite studies. "Recondite learning." --Bp. Horsley.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

recondite
    adj 1: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of
           ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's
           lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid
           them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite
           problem in historiography" [syn: abstruse, deep,
           recondite]